Day 776 -- Court butts heads with government on Oct. 7 probe, draft dodgers
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
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Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
ToI founding editor David Horovitz joins host Jessica Steinberg for today’s episode.
As Israel’s Supreme Court demanded the government justify its reasons for not establishing a state commission of inquiry into the events that led to the October 7 Hamas invasion and massacres in southern Israel, Horovitz discusses how the government’s current approach will not uncover what went wrong, creating a dangerous precedent for the country.
The High Court also ordered the government to create effective enforcement measures against ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers, and Horovitz discusses the ruling written by High Court justice Noam Sohlberg, who rebuked the Haredi community and its assertion that Torah study outweighs army service, citing the ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik.
Check out The Times of Israel’s ongoing liveblog for more updates.
For further reading:
Netanyahu’s Oct. 7 inquiry aims to safeguard his job, not Israel’s future
High Court orders government to explain why it’s not launching Oct. 7 state inquiry
High Court gives government 45 days to draw up sanctions for Haredi draft dodgers
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IMAGE: Deputy President of the Supreme Court Noam Sohlberg arrives for a court hearing on the government’s draft of ultra-Orthodox Jews on October 29, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing. It is Thursday, November 20th, and I'm Jessica Steinberg. |
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| 0:34.1 | Okay, back to today's podcast. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm speaking today with Times Visual founder, David Horowitz, our founding editor. Hi, back to today's podcast. I'm speaking today with Times Visual founder, |
| 0:39.0 | David Horowitz, our founding editor. Hi, David. How you doing? I'm okay, just guy. |
| 0:43.7 | Good, good to hear that. It is day 776 of the war. It was a very fiery day in Israel's |
| 0:52.2 | high court yesterday as the Supreme Court demanded the government to |
| 0:55.7 | justify its reasons for not establishing a state commission of inquiry into the events that |
| 1:01.7 | led to the October 7th Hamas invasion and massacres in southern Israel. We'll discuss the government's |
| 1:08.8 | move to appoint their own probe. We'll also talk about the high court's order to the government's move to appoint their own probe. |
| 1:19.5 | We'll also talk about the High Court's order to the government to create effective enforcement measures against ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers. |
| 1:21.0 | Stay with us. Okay, so David, a very intensive day yesterday on Wednesday in terms of the back |
| 1:35.6 | and forth between the High Court and the government. |
| 1:38.7 | The High Court is making different kinds of demands on the government, but let's start |
| 1:43.1 | with the ongoing issue of not |
| 1:47.0 | establishing a state commission of inquiry, the government not establishing a state commission |
| 1:51.8 | of inquiry into the events that surrounded the catastrophic Hamas invasion. And the High Court |
| 1:57.8 | is instructing the government to justify its reasons for not doing so, which |
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